SureCarbon is Making Batteries Two Times As Powerful, and That’s A Huge Deal

SureCarbon wants to use pine trees to make supercapacitors.

Loblolly pine to be exact.

Supercapacitors that allow drones to stay in the air a lot longer. Theoretically, drone manufacturers will be able to then develop drones that can fly higher and longer.

Its called SuperAnode 700. And its a supercapacitor for the anode side of the capacitors used in the production of lithium-ion batteries.

Standard lithium-ion batteries use graphite to store electrical charge. And the batteries we’re used to are made with outdated technology. Battery technology has barely advanced since Sony first introduced the lithium-ion in the 1990s.

Because of this outdated technology, drone flight time is limited to only about 25 minutes.

But SureCarbon uses a process called Enviranization to produce a renewable, plant-based material that is used to produce the SuperAnode 700. Enviranization takes waste wood from the lumber industry and turns it into a useable, carbon neutral and renewable plant-based form of activated carbon.

That activated carbon is what gives rise to the SuperAnode 700.

Unlike graphite, which is a mined and finite mineral, SuperAnode 700 is renewable and made from bountiful waste wood.

It stores twice as much electricity in half the time compared with current lithium-ion battery capacitors.

As a lightweight and high capacity alternative, SuperAnode 700’s potential for application is enormous.